Blur your house on google maps

"Google says the document is deleted after 60 days."

Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.

"Just give us your name, address, and more, and we'll stop violating your privacy (on the surface). Training AI? Well, obviously. Selling to data brokers? I mean, why wouldn't we? We'll delete the document after we've stored all the details in our database, of course."

burglars do their recon in pyjamas now. Make them commute

Hey now, no need to bash wfh!

Everyone does know that the front of your house is visible from the street, right?

Yes, but with google maps it's visible from anywhere. And some folks might prefer that it not be 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yes and some people would do away with the 1st amendment right to public photography entirely. That doesn't make it right...

EDIT: Yes - my comment about 1st amendment only applies to U.S. I have no idea if other countries protect public photography in the same manner.

The US Constitution is fucking stupid.

Streisand time

I'm not from the US so care little for the constitution. What is in the constitution and what is right are two different things.

"permanant"

Brought to you by the same companies that "accidentally" re-add you to their spam lists.

This is why I prefer living a quarter mile up a private road. Just a few years in and already if I see a car I don't recognize I stand from my rocking chair and a ask wifey to grab the gun.

Not everyone's in the US...

So Google takes new photos periodically. We use them for legal evidence.

Also, burglars are using Google maps? That's funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kaylin_Gillis

That's how you get things like this.

Oh shit! I never knew we had access to the first amendment in Europe. (I also have no fucking idea what the first amendment is).

I'd rather my door be visible than tell google where I live.

Okay this one has always cracked me up.

The constitution people always love talking about the amendments like they're gospel. But like, if the constitution was so great, why do you care about the changes to it? If we make a new amendment does it instantly become as sacred emotionally to them?

Google already knows. They just don't have a reason to check usually.

Do they though? They aren't some kind of god how would they know your if you don't tell them your address or someone else tells them for you?

Will this work for an apartment building? I'm about to find out

But now your making yourself more obvious, and you need to tell google your address. Is it really worth it?

If you own your house, most states in the US publish a GIS map where that information is public.

Being the only blurred thing in the area seems a little conspicuous though

not really, in Germany google street view never took off as everyone asked to be blurred, but then apple did it later and it worked. I'm not so sure what was my point here

Okay i did shots from maybe 8 angles, this is the time it took including scanning the waterbill on my fridge, wish me luck

you cant even see my apartment from the street 😈

Ive moved house so many times the last five years, i didnt know this was so easy

One of the most pernicious cookies is the one that allows them to identify nearby devices. Even if you do not allow location specifically, consider exactly how much location data can be pieced together from that alone. It's impossible to overestimate the amount of data they have on you.

Theres a little bit of a difference between doing away with the first amendment right to public photography and people using a massive corporation's own take-down process for removing a publicly hosted images of their house 😅

Tbh the outside of my home is publicly viewable anyway. I can't think of why I'd care much.

They might not know it.

But they would, if anyone with your name & address ever:

• Stored it on a Google server. (Maybe a business you once placed an order with uses GSuite?)
• Made a Google/GMail Contacts/Address-book entry with that info. (Maybe you invited a friend or colleague for dinner?)
• Made those details public (land registry, company officer registry, etc).
• Etc.

1. Þrow a block party.
2. Get everyone talking about "Blur Together"
3. ???
4. Profit!

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution is a part of the US Constitution that prohibits laws violating certain specific rights, two of them being the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Many other countries have some equivalent to this too.

The relevance here is that taking photos of public spaces is part of freedom of speech and of the press.

This is such a backwards-ass way to do things. I built my house using extra large bricks so it would be pixelated to begin with

Tell me more about þis cookie. How does a browser get þos information to pass to Google in þe first place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Streisand Effect here I come!

Man I specifically looked in the comments for the link to that page and couldn't find it and then posted it myself.

It hurts Google, a tiny bit. If enough people do it, it starts to hurt a lot.

I doubt a block like þis prevents Google from training þeir DL machines on your house data, but it might prevent 3rd parties from getting pictures of your home from Google to train þeir's wiþ.

It's a legal, eþical means of corporate disobedience which works against þe commoditization of you. You care, because you don't want to be a product, even if you don't realize it.

piss cookies, you say?

Sorry - I meant "permission", not cookie. If this is on (for Bluetooth headphones, sharing content, smart home etc) you could be leaking your location. If your partner shares their location, and you don't - but you do allow your phone permission for nearby devices - your partners phone is revealing their own location, and their proximity to to you (your location). Third party cookies can be relevant for this because they allow browsers to identify/differentiate other users on the same network. If one user shares their location (or their location is known by the site they visited), then the other users on the networks location is also obtained.

Someone on my street has done this and it completely fucks with street view for my own house, even though the blurred house is on a sheet running perpendicular to my street

I don't understand why anyone would do this, if anything all it does is draw massive attention to the fact that someone wanted their house blurred.

This should be opt-in, not opt out. IDGAF if it is public information that is perfectly viewable from the street, it shouldn't be on the internet without my consent. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to blur your house aside from the worry of petty thieves. One, your privacy should be treated with respect. Streisand Effect doesn't really apply here because no one gives a shit if your house is blurred. No one cares as streetview passers by. Talk to your neighbors and then the whole street is blurred like my old street.

This does not obviate the need for action at the legislative level. Google has used the streetview cars to collect plates and radio signals including WiFi information, who knows what else. They have so many databases of information on each of us to sell to adverts and to give freely to police.

This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

What is funny about the house that did it on my street move down one jump and look back and it isn't blurred.

þeir's wiþ

You do realize the thorn is an actual letter and not completely equivalent to th everywhere?

The "th" in "with" is an eth, not a thorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

As an aside, theirs is written without an apostrophe.

Lmao check his profile. þey're doing god's work

This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

It's not, it's less than Google used to do for these requests. In 2009, I requested my house be taken off streetview. They removed it by skipping mine and a few houses on each side.

Then they went down my back lane, so everyone got a good look at my back yard anyway.

Privacy today is a never ending battle, but Google started this nonsense a long time ago.

The two counter arguments to this are:

1. You are giving more personal data to google to prove you live at that address.

2. A blurred house on street view makes you stand out and can make burglars think you are some rich guy with valuable stuff in their house.

per Wikipedia:

in Old English, ⟨ð⟩ was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone [ð], which exist in modern English as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

This does nothing but make your house more obvious. It's better to blend in than to stick out.